Finding the Elusive Mining Camp - Nevada

hello everyone it is stephen and andrea from pin in the atlas still deep in the heart of nevada in this location we've been searching for days to get up to because you won't find it on any map so what is this place well this elusive mining camp dates back to 1862 and is one of the oldest mining camps in the whole of nevada let's explore so this camp was worked up until about 1870 before it closed down and then it became active again in around the 1930s to the 1950s the cabins that we see were built for a small crew who worked the three mines in the area let's take a look so the first little building we've come up to would appear to be some type of a garage tell by the wide opening stone foundations have crumbled so you got some nice uh shelving on the side here probably with some on the just on the other way too i thought it was a key it's not it's just a washer oh can't see any dates yeah the ground looks like it's uh washed down along the back side caved a lot of this in got like a piece of uh that canvas or something up there it's like a strap yeah or a belt as in a motor belt not as in a right belt possibly like butches up right so that's cool you see the the hinges here two different styles but they serve the same purpose and you might have been able to notice right next to it a little cabin and i can see part of it's dug into the mountain now that goes back a little ways so it's like they dug a partial little mine like a little added that you see most of the time reinforced it with some metal in the top there and there's some shelves and things all along the side do you think that could be cold storage definitely has to be because it's inside the the home i'm gonna venture in all right careful looks like there's a bunch of rats redness back there there you see back oh it's pretty wide they used like some gobbing method there for the rock wall oh great [Applause] lino on the floor look at the cloth and insulated with cardboard we see that quite a bit and the shelves have got plastic covering on like sticky back plastic obviously where the stove was still up there so this had to be the kitchen area yeah like andrea mentioned there's the floor you've got a tiny little cupboard in the corner which is really cute oh wow and it looks like this was wired for electricity that may be a some sort of switch could be oh this is natty you seen this yeah i was just looking at that it's kind of like a one of those it is like a serving like yeah like a serving hatch and then again so you got some little shelf up there in the corner another one over here in this corner then we've got a little bit of a loft space and continue on floors feel pretty solid there's the other side a little closet area nice little cabin we've got a loft hatch up here yeah there is one in the other room that must run straight through the whole length of the house you see the door frame what's left of it so these presumably were built in the 1930s wow see how high the ground level is now yes that's like a little area the the wash water will come down wash sediment into the side of the building here pretty strong to still be standing we'll work our way over here we've made our way over to the next little cabin now this one's seen better days oh wow look at how that's all cracked it's ready to go look at the window with the hinges that's cool and it had a stove there's a little stove hole to the left all right vented out that way apart from that not a lot else no that little cabin is just immediately to our left and we found a little animal pen [Applause] see the chicken wire there's a little opening so again probably chickens let's get a little home in there it's got a little hole in here with a little nice like set to feed that's pretty cool yeah definitely uh for roosting they've got poles up oh yeah look at the still got bark and stuff on there that's really cool [Applause] so they put some care into building this for them well i guess also they don't want them to be uh got out by cutting now i'm not sure whether or not there's bear do you know if there's bear or bobcat or definitely bobcat mountain lion but i'm not sure about bear looks like quite a large water tank again i have some rope around it so somebody's towed it or dragged it down to this spot it looks like i don't know where it originated from but somebody didn't want it where it was here's another very small cabin that is in really bad condition i don't think it'll be too much longer that this will be in this condition so the roof's peeling up the walls have come down on this side peeling away over here around this entrance and then the floor is buckling and it looks like uh somebody did use this for some of their cement board which is also adding to the deterioration that's a lot of weight on this little floor and up here see some of the wood looks charred i don't know if that's just set from the uh the stove as you can see there's the vent pipe there anyways just imagine being a miner building this as your little home why try to make a profit i have a lot of respect for those men not sure what's happened to the rest of this but it's not underneath now this pack rat has a mansion to live in we did take a peek inside it's got a huge nest andrea saw it moving around so we'll try not to frighten the little thing but we just thought that was a bit interesting because you got a few pieces of lumber down on the side but that's it not brilliant but there is a little can dump a bunch of broken glass don't know if that's more modern but just the usual suspects old tins few tobacco tins what's that i have no idea first of all i thought it was like a little plug thing yeah it looks like they've done something to a little little tin a little pill box or something help us uh very strange apart from that nothing really catches my eye here we've got looks like three cabins in succession two on this side one just behind us looks like somebody's been using it for paintball practice certainly does there's some cabinets up in the back corner and there's two vent pipes one over by the cabinets and one just over here on the left and somebody's brought a pillow in behind the door there just simple unfortunately this one here is in very bad shape look at the the stove out here see how the four burners number 818 c it's a shame to see you can see there was some very ornate designs on it it's a shame to see them deteriorate outside like this and then this one i don't know if that came out of here you see the exterior walls are gone the uh plasterboard inside has been just demolished this has been vandalized it has the paintballs all over the place graffiti looks like there's a shoe box in there bed frames demolished i'll have a look around the other side don't understand what the point of all that is because they don't have any intellect no intellect no respect the rats have gotten to it just like the other one i don't think it's going to be too much longer before this one has collapsed and that's a shame because this was somebody's home alright this is the last of the three buildings on this section there's one more to explore after this a little way up the road just a short walk and this is the biggest one we've encountered so far i think this could have been the superintendent's place the boss's place that's a possibility a guess this is large yaz didn't know if maybe this could be like the clubhouse area too or possibly i guess i mean you've got a massive double sink with a large drainer and that there's a dead bird in there yeah that's a bird's nest oh poor thing yeah it looks like it's been shot with the paintball gun and have you seen the door that's covering the window yep if they had done that originally to keep people out and they've uh [Music] come to it possibly thin in here [Music] now that would be would that be cladding or would they be yeah it's got to be shelves uh cladding right because they've got drywall over the top and some insulation and just gonna yeah it's not the correct way to build a wall but uh they have to work but hey out in the middle of nowhere beggars can't be choosers right subfloor there yeah massive crawl space so we'll see if we can have a look at that outside yeah that wood around there is a little bit sketchy a little soft but look at the windows how they were they were the slider windows yeah very ornate see another reason they probably covered a lot of these windows try to keep the glass from getting broken but it's all that rocks thoughts through it or shot at or hey is this this is an old battery i'm not going to touch it but there is an old battery that's pretty cool and a little storage bench that's just made out that's ply board isn't it is that what you call that particle board particle board and the hole in the wall floor so we'll go back out and uh check out that crawl space and here we are outside you can see just above in the center of the screen that was the uh little hole in that room so we're at the back of the building let's see it looks like pieces of cardboard and stuff hanging so you might have had it tacked up to the bottom for some more insulation as well [Music] climbed a little ways up to see the last building we spotted this on the hillside just above it so we thought we'd come take a look so this must have been a type of water tank container some sort you can also see at one point there's a remnants they had some type of roof on it or at least a catwalk probably to prevent uh people from throwing their corona bottles in there so unfortunately now the roof's gone and won't stop people from doing that you can see because there's also tie wire in different segments so you can see where it was tied down to the sides and then overlooking where we have been you'll notice this building in the forefront it's like a little mill operation there you can see an ore bin and some other of the timbers have fallen away kind of broken up so might have been see the one laying down it's got like a little those cross members on it for them to kind of walk up like a makeshift ladder looks quite sketchy up to the top so they would uh might have had a conveyor running up to the top here dumping it down in and then coming out this way so the finished process [Music] old engine right there [Music] and again i think that's a like the seat out of a car just the frame now and there's tons of water pipes running through here and some old fire hose oops buckets and things and then oh wow check this apollo steel company apollo pennsylvania don't always get to see what's left on there here's a different look you can see how this is all on a skew and then the water pipes running all throughout this place like spaghetti then i've also oh wow also just noticed something else pretty neat so the walls came from pennsylvania the roof came from sears in los angeles and any of you that are familiar with los angeles you know that that sears building is still standing in east l.a it's quite a remarkable building to look at if you get the chance you should go drive by it and this got a little pocket back there then this table i don't know if this was like a shaker table it's got some little pockets on the side there it's in really nice condition the wood on the top so it doesn't look like that's taking a beating you've got some some metal rail on the bottom do get the smell of oil so obviously a lot of the machinery that was in here is gone just a few bits remaining dismantled workbench this bit here is interesting now would that be to hold tools possibly quite possibly i thought it was interesting anyway and is this an old stove it is yeah it's uh now the top's missing there's a view of the top and then this little pocket see some of the natural wood that they've used give a little peek inside the orbit all right everyone thank you for watching we're glad you came along with us when we finally found this historic mining camp that has been eluding us yeah it took us days to find out days of research days of looking on google earth but finally result and on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure [Music] bye [Music] do [Music] hmm [Music] you